Russell L.Ackoff

  • Fix The System Problem, Not The People Problem

    The phrase ‘shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic’ is believed to have been first used in 1969. It featured in a Time Magazine article that quoted a priest decrying petty internal changes at a time when the Catholic church should… Continue reading

    Fix The System Problem, Not The People Problem
  • Agile Isn’t Everything and Everything Isn’t Agile

    A friend of mine was recently invited on a two-day training course to teach/indoctrinate them in the ways of agile. It was accompanied by a 500-slide PowerPoint, no doubt explaining terms like ‘scrum of scrums’, ‘time boxing’, ‘epics’, ‘niko niko… Continue reading

    Agile Isn’t Everything and Everything Isn’t Agile